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[ecrea] Cosmopolitanism and the Margins. An international symposium on Voice, Space and Citizenship

Thu Oct 09 09:01:32 GMT 2014




"Cosmopolitanism and the Margins. An international symposium on Voice, Space and Citizenship"

30-31 October 2014 (Registration is free and open to all, see link below)

Venue: E2 Auditorium, KTH Royal Institute of Technology Campus, Stockholm, Sweden

Keynote Speeches:

Lilie Chouliaraki (London School of Economics)
Post-humanitarianism:The Contemporary Politics of Solidarity

Nikos Papastergiadis (The University of Melbourne)
Cosmopolitanism: A Perspective from the South

Myria Georgiou TBC (London School of Economics,)
Loving difference? The Contradictory Cosmopolitan Visions of the Mediated City

Erik Gandini (FASAD)
Cosmopolitan Visions

Closing Plenary
Karin Becker (Stockholm University)

As indicated by the volume of research and writing produced in recent years, questions related with cosmopolitanism, citizenship and social space retain their significance both in cultural studies and political science. At odds with the cosmopolitan vision, however, we are witnessing the rise of the remodeled European far-right that capitalizes on populist rhetoric over the loss of jobs, sovereignty, cultural and ethnic ideals and on immigration and immigrants such as the so-called “benefits tourists” from Eastern and Central Europe. The resurgent conservatism in Europe condemns cosmopolitanism while at the same time lauding its results. Parallel to this, both our mediated (e.g. electronic media) and actual (e.g. urban space) spaces of communication become increasingly more exclusive, more commodified and less tolerant of dissent, otherness and marginality, be it gentrification in London or the ban on graffiti in Stockholm and elsewhere.

Against this background, the symposium concerns itself with both theoretical and practical aspects of communication, urban space and social practice at large. We seek to offer contextual understandings of a broad range of questions and debates that materialize around multiculturalism, marginal/ized communities, race-racism-racialization, global social movements, environmental crises, and art and ‘expressive cultures’. While recent social incidents that invoke such debates (such as the various global uprisings and urban riots) constitute concrete contexts within which to reconsider the purchase of cosmopolitanism as idea and ideal, the symposium aims to generate theoretical thinking and deliberation on the transhistoric and transcultural viability of cosmopolitan thought.

Cosmopolitanism and the Margins is part of the ongoing research project Cosmopolitanism from the Margins: Mediations of Expressivity, Social Space and Cultural Citizenship funded by the Swedish Research Council (Proj. Dir.: Miyase Christensen, Stockholm University and KTH Royal Institute of Technology; Co-investigator: André Jansson, Karlstad University; Doctoral Researcher: Tindra Thor, Stockholm University). The symposium is administered by Dr. Susanna Lidström and Sofia Jonsson KTH Royal Institute of Technology.

Abstract submission and registration:

There are limited spots for paper presentations during the symposium.

15 October: Deadline for abstract submissions – send your brief abstract to Prof. Miyase Christensen: (miyase /at/ kth.se)

(Notification of acceptance from symposium organizers will be quick and on a rolling basis.)

20 October: Final day of registration for all participants. Please register for the symposium (indicating which day/s you plan to attend) using the following link:

http://www.kth.se/en/abe/inst/philhist/historia/kalender/cosmopolitanism-and-the-margins-1.502107?date=2014-10-30&orgdate=2014-10-01&length=1&orglength=31

For further questions please contact Prof. Miyase Christensen (miyase /at/ kth.se)



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